kninspiration (or: new addiction)
So, I didn't know much about Stephanie Pearl-McPhee before Tuesday but she is one funny/cool lady! It was a very enjoyable/ engaging / enlightening / all the good "e" words really...
I think I understand why so many knitters are also bloggers. Its because we are "super-responders"! SPM learned me about the term in her talk - it was in the context of fundraising but I think maybe knitters are also just super-respondery in general... so we like to show and tell and get and give comments. Cyberspace also enlarges the group you have access to. Really, I wouldn't know how to knit without the internet to begin with but it is also the way I found out about KOL... and without KOL, I'd be knittin' alone.
So I just got my first pair of "real" socks (as in, made with actual sock-weight yarn) under way. I cobbled together information from Wendy Johnson's toe-up sock pattern, the Knitty Universal Toe-Up sock pattern, and some site (I forget) that showed how to do a provisional cast-on. I've learned a lot from starting this project and I have to say, I think knitting socks this way is likely to become a new addiction!! Its faster than I thought, the architecture is magical/fascinating, and I know I'll definately wear them!
Here's the "Crazy" (that's what its called) Opal stuff on my kitchen scale. I made two lovely center pull balls... because pre-fondling the yarn is part of the fun for me.
Yep! That's my foot! PLUS my first provisinal cast on, first short rows, for sock yarn, first toe-up EVA!! booyaa!
I like to make things that come in twos at the same time - for fear I'll never make the second. So here's my two toes. I bet your wondering what that space-debris-looking-thing in the background is! I'm just going to leave you guessing.
So, I officially feel like a real part of this "creepy sub-culture" (SPM 2007) now that I have posted a picture of my foot!
Frankly, I'm happy we actually got the full word "culture" in there... some may have stopped at "cult".
9 comments:
LOOK AT YOU!!!!! TOE UP SOCKS! You've just gone right over the edge. And you're just zipping right along too!
Cult-CHA! We've got cult-CHA, dahlingk!
(Erm - I think I know what the silver thing is. Should I be fortifying my house?)
It's only fair that you finally showed your foot since you showed both of your husband's feet in the last post.
Awesome socks!
Love the socks! I have yet to try toe-up sock- maybe the next pair.
Yay! Welcome to the creepy subculture! And thanks for the awesome t-shirt design. You rock!
The other thing, is that we can totally relate to the feverish sense of pride and accomplishment over a short row toe.
My first toe up? I paraded it around the house and kept making Mr Moe inspect it. Just wait till you get to the heel. I'll alert the media.
hahaha! you guys all RAWK!
Yeah - I'm pretty proud of those toes! BUT, they are now officially on hold until I get that turtleneck shrug done! Its been bringing me down because its kind of ... well... boring.
You have all been making me feel like a rock-star with the credit and kudos on the shirt. It wouldn't have happened without the initial spark and the help though -so I shouldn't get all the cred. I'm glad everyone seems to like it though! Thanks for all the shout-outs.
Now, I will retreat back into shy-dom.
Oooh, first socks are powerful things. They tend to make you dance around and watch your feet as you walk. A number of times I've been seated at gatherings and totally lost the thread of coversation because I get busy admiring how delightful my feet look in my socks :)
And if you read SPM's work, she does talk about how very clever a knitter feels when they've turned a heel. All true.
I can hardly wait for the heels!
Oh Glee!
The desire for the socks has really made me speed up on my other project... still, it'll probably be at least a week before I can get back to the l'il ones. sigh.
When I managed to turn my first heel I actually woke my husband out of a deep sleep to show him. It was like, 2am. Poor guy. He had no idea what was going on and could not understand why I got mad at him for lack of enthusiastic response.
He has since learned to at least fake it well, lol!
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